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Having problems with your NEC Versa VX Notebook ?

I want to restore to factory state but boot cd won't work

\015 Ok here the downlo, I have a NEC Versa L2200 series notebook, I had vista home basic on it originally, I found vista to be complete rubbish and after one to many drinks after shift work i used a rebuiled cd from a different pc to try n load xp(yes this woz silly) I managed to get xp to work for a period of time however now i wish to put vista back on so i wiped xp but when i try to use the vista recovery cd it just comes up with an error msg, an unexpected error I/O error has occured, OxcOOOOOe9, apparently caused by faulty hard drive or cd-rom but i can use other cd's and they work fine.\015

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I think your hard drive which is a SATA drive, needs to be formatted specially for Vista.you need to find out the make and model of your hard drive,and then you can download a hard drive formatting utility program from the hard drive manufacturers website.The hard drive is accessed from under the keyboard on this model.

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